The Stack Overflow Podcast

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• The good, the bad, and the AI apps 03.07.2026 25min

  Ryan welcomes Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to the show to explore what actually makes an AI application good or not, how to balance qualitative signals with quantitative metrics when evaluating AI, and how open-source eval protocols and community efforts are setting the standard for AI evaluation. Episode notes: Fireworks AI is a cloud platform designed for developers and enterprises to run, customize, and scale open-source generative AI models. Connect with Benny on LinkedIn.Congrats to user techtabu for winning a Stellar Answer badge for answering How can I delete all local Docker images?. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• How do you turn AI coding chaos into a repeatable playbook? 02.07.2026 22min

  Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, joins Leaders of Code to explain how his org built a repeatable, org-wide system for AI-assisted engineering.
• Why intent prediction needs more than an LLM 30.06.2026 29min

  Ryan sits down with Frank Portman, CTO at Yobi, to talk about why next-token prediction is limited when it comes to forecasting human behavior.
• Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failures 26.06.2026 30min

  Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in production harder, why production failures are really caused by interactions between systems and not just the code itself, and how teams can troubleshoot more effectively when traditional observability tools are not enough for agentic AI workflows.Episode notes: Traversal is an AI-powered autonomous SRE for complex software systems with automatic triage alerts, root cause investigation, and incident prevention at petabyte scale. Connect with Anish on LinkedIn or reach out to him at  anish@traversal.com. Our sixteenth Annual Developer Survey is now open and we want to hear your thoughts on all things software. Take the survey now!Congrats to user aioobe on winning a Populist badge for their answer to Javascript a=b=c statements. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Oh the places you’ll go with spatial data 23.06.2026 29min

  Ryan is joined by  Jeffrey Hightower, VP of Places Data at Microsoft, and Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, to chat about their partnership in bringing spatial data to the next generation of Microsoft tools; how Overture’s 50 organization members are creating open, standardized, and interoperable  global spatial data sets; and their solutions to the innate challenges of trying to digitally map the world. Episode notes: The Overture Maps Foundation is a free, open, and collaborative spatial data platform creating reliable and interoperable map data infrastructure. Microsoft is a founding member and part of Overture’s Steering committee. Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.Connect with Jeffrey on LinkedIn. Congrats to user Cesar Canassa for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Slicing a dictionary. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• You don’t understand DNS like you think you do 19.06.2026 29min

  Ryan welcomes Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk all things DNS. They cover the evolution of one of the oldest DNS server implementations, BIND, and what the future holds for protected DNS configurations; the realities of security threats like DDoS and DNS spoofing; and why outages often trace back to a lack of understanding of DNS’s fundamental role. Episode notes:Infoblox is a cloud-managed network services platform for core networking, combining automated infrastructure management and real-time threat intelligence.You think this is a lot about DNS? Cricket wrote several books about it. Connect with Cricket on LinkedIn or email him at  cricket@infoblox.com. Congrats to user Johannes Schaub - litb for winning a Populist badge for their answer to How do i check if a file is a regular file?. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• If context is king, architecture is the castle 16.06.2026 26min

  Recorded live at the AI Agent Conference, Ryan sits down with Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBerglis to discuss how enterprises can leverage GraphQL and MCP as a structured semantic architecture to feed clean data to autonomous agents, safeguard internal microservices against unprecedented "east-west" data exfiltration risks, and rein in skyrocketing token spend by explicitly querying only the exact context required.Episode notes: Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.Connect with Matt on LinkedIn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Developers are emotionally attached to their tools 12.06.2026 34min

  Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; the relevance of traditional tools, muscle memory, the risks of hype; and how to adapt workflows for AI-driven development.Episode notes:Trisha Gee is a developer advocate and Java champion with over 20 years of software experience. Connect with Trisha on LinkedIn and X.Congrats to user citelao for winning a Famous Question Badge for their question VS Code SSH keeps dropping connections, but I can SSH just fine. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like? 11.06.2026 33min

  Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to software teams when AI makes code generation seemingly free.
• Creating checkpoints by gaslighting a Postgres database 09.06.2026 35min

  Ryan welcomes Bryan Clark, director of product for Lakebase at Databricks, to discuss what happens when AI agents become the primary creators and users of databases; why agents are “sloppy” about cleaning up infrastructure; and how database branching, scale-to-zero, and centralized access control can help teams keep up with agent-driven development.Episode notes:Databricks Lakebase is a Postgres-compatible operational database built around fast branching, separated compute and storage, and tight integration with the Databricks lakehouse.Connect with Bryan on LinkedIn and X.Congrats to Populist badge winner Benjamin Merchin for earning the badge for their answer to JSX element class does not support attributes because it does not have a 'props' property.ts(2607).  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era 05.06.2026 34min

  Ryan welcomes back Tanya Janca, now part of the OWASP Top 10 team, to discuss what changed in the latest OWASP Top 10 release, how the list shifted from “outdated components” to a broader software supply chain focus, and why they added memory safety and vibe-coding as awareness items. Episode notes:The OWASP Top 10 for 2025 is the latest standard awareness document for developers and web application security that represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.Learn more about Tanya’s work at her website and her new podcast DevSec Station. You can learn how to prompt your AI for secure code with her prompt library.Read Tanya’s articles on our blog. Congrats to Populist badge winner Rob Kielty for winning the badge on their answer to How can I tell IntelliJ's "Find in Files" to ignore generated files?.TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• What it takes to be a player in the international AI game 02.06.2026 26min

  From the floor of HumanX, Ryan welcomes Songyee Yoon, managing partner at Principal Venture Partners (PVP), to chat about AI development outside the US, from the need to adapt models to local languages and culture to the challenges of the global supply-chain for things like semiconductors to how venture capital is looking at international AI companies. Episode notes: PVP supports early stage, AI-native companies shaping the future of how we live and work. Learn more about their work at their Substack. Connect with Songyee on LinkedIn.TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection 29.05.2026 30min

  In this two-for-one special recorded at HumanX, Ryan is joined by Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau to chat about the governance, orchestration, and data requirements for serious agentic systems and 1Password’s Nancy Wang for a conversation on making agent swarms secure.Ryan first catches up with Dataiku co-founder and CEO Florian Douettea to chat serious agentic systems and why they require intentional frameworks, orchestration, governance, and reusable, documented data products. Then, 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang returns to the show to discuss why current identity standards don’t fit the new world of agents, especially when ephemeral agent swarms make attribution to a single user difficult. Episode notes:Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents. Florian previously appeared on this program in an episode recorded at the last HumanX conference. 1Password keeps your credentials secure through end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and more. You can learn more about building secure agent swarms at their blog. Nancy Wang previously appeared on the pod in March 2026. Connect with Florian on LinkedIn.Connect with Nancy on LinkedIn. TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Do you have what it takes to run AI in production? 26.05.2026 27min

  From the floor of HumanX, Ryan Donovan is joined by Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, to chat about what it really takes to run AI in production; the growing importance of observability, utilization, and scheduling; and Peter’s advice for avoiding the trap of over-architecting too early. Episode note:CoreWeave is the AI-native platform cloud that’s purpose-built for AI, combining next-generation infrastructure and intelligent tools to power the world’s most complex AI workloads.Connect with Peter on X. TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks 22.05.2026 29min

  Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that leave GPUs underutilized, their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture, and why modern AI infrastructure is converging on S3-compatible object storage. Episode notes: MinIO delivers exascale performance, unifying enterprise data across edge, core, and cloud environments. Reach out to them at  hello@min.io.Connect with Garima on LinkedIn.Connect with AB on LinkedIn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Pack your agentic stack in Slack 20.05.2026 29min

  SPONSORED BY SLACK BY SALESFORCERyan welcomes Jaime DeLanghe, chief product officer at Slack, to chat about how they’re preparing to integrate everybody’s agents in their chat application. They chat about the similarities between bots and agents, managing the wealth of context available in enterprise chat, and how the best agent to agent protocols might be a DM. Episode notes:Get started with building agents on Slack with their developer site.Today is Slack’s Dev Day! Tune into the livestream for info on integrating agents into Slack. Congrats to Famous Question asker arianit ax for asking change default location of .gitconfig.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Your fridge could be a threat to national security 19.05.2026 29min

  On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers,  Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat Report that tracks over 281 adversaries across nation states, e-crime, and hacktivist organizations. They discuss the new wave of phishing attacks that target identity and use social engineering, how foreign bodies are exploiting security flaws to get your information, and how you can protect yourself from attacks as AI makes both defenders and attackers smarter at what they do. Episode notes: Crowdstrike’s latest Global Threat Report tracks 281 known adversaries' behavior and how they’re using AI, cloud exploits, and social engineering to steal your data and attack your software. Connect with Adam on LinkedIn.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Observability and human intuition in an AI world 15.05.2026 29min

  In this two for one episode recorded at HumanX, Ryan is first joined by Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to discuss how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, making observability about capturing the right telemetry. Then, Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, shares with us how AI coding increases code volume but decreases human intuition, making production operations harder than ever.  Episode notes: Honeycomb is an observability platform that enables deep, high-dimensional exploration so you can debug unpredictable behavior with precision.Resolve AI allows you to resolve incidents, optimize costs, and code with production context using AI that works across your code, infrastructure, and telemetry.Connect with Christine on LinkedIn.Connect with Spiros on LinkedIn. TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area 13.05.2026 43min

  Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, shares how his team became AI-first in months—and the pivotal moments that changed his thinking.
• Connecting the dots for accurate AI 12.05.2026 31min

  At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approach to agents a bad fit for enterprise environments, and how Graph RAG raises the bar for accuracy and reduces context rot by combining vectors with a knowledge graph so agents are more targeted and connected.Episode notes:Neo4j is a native graph database management system designed to handle complex, highly-connected data by focusing on relationships rather than tables. You can try it out for free on Aura and learn more at their Graph Academy. Connect with Philip on LinkedIn.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.